Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app repository ...

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A federal antitrust lawsuit over the long-shuttered alternative app store called Cydia has now been given the green light to proceed, after its initial complaint was dismissed. The Cydia app store, ...

When you jailbreak an iOS device, you are given access to Cydia, the wild west frontier of tweaks, themes and apps you can’t get in Apple’s own App Store. Jailbreaking gives you the freedom to ...

For years, iOS users who wanted to use their devices without the constraints imposed by Apple have been jailbreaking their devices in order to install software from outside of the Apple App Store ...

After many years of being available to users as a way to fully customize the operating system, the backbone that handles purchases on Cydia (which was only available to jailbroken devices) is today ...

A security vulnerability in the payments system of the Cydia app store has led to its developer to close it down effective immediately. Jay Freeman, formerly known as saurik, announced the decision in ...

Following a security issue that would allow hackers to buy apps using other people's accounts, Cydia app store creator Jay Freeman (who goes by the name of Saurik) has pulled the plug on purchases ...